Author: Edward M. Spiers
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719026591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: John C. Oeffinger
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Despite this, no biography of McLaws or history of his division has ever been published. A Soldier's General gathers ninety-five letters written by McLaws to his family between 1858 and 1865, making these valuable resources available to a wide audience for the first time. The letters, painstakingly transcribed from McLaws's notoriously poor handwriting, contain a wealth of opinion and information about life and morale in the Confederate army, Civil War-era politics, the Southern press, and the impact of war on the Confederate home front. Among the fascinating threads the letters trace is the story of McLaws's fractured relationship with childhood friend Longstreet, who had McLaws relieved of command in 1863. John Oeffinger's extensive introduction sketches McLaws's life from his beginnings in Augusta, Georgia, through his early experiences in the U.S. Army, his marriage, his Civil War exploits, and his postwar years.

Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572

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Author: Johannesburg (South Africa). Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Biblioteekkatalogi
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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Author: National Archives (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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Author: Alexandra Popoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605987271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's every move, and he was always in the company of a man named Certkov. At sixty-nine, Russia's most celebrated writer was being treated like a major criminal, and had abandoned his literary pursuits and become a spiritual mystic, angering the Orthodox church and earning both the admination and ire of his countrymen. Tolstoy was recognizable enough, with his peasant garb and beard, but who was the man who towered over Tolstoy, twenty years younger, with a cold, impenetrable look on his face?This man, Chertkov, was a relative to the Tsars and nephew to the chief of the secret police and represented the very things Tolstoy had renounced—class privilege, unlimited power, and wealth—and yet Chertkov fascinated and attracted Tolstoy. He would become the writer's closest confidant, reading even his diary, and at the end of Tolstoy's life, Chertkov had him in his complete control, preventing him from even seeing his own wife on his deathbed.